help please with literature review

[fatima21]

hi everyone

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My name is fatima and i'm 2 year student in london, and i would be very grateful if someone could help me with literature review. i dont understand the whole concept of literature review i've been reading but nothing seems to make sense. my topic is privacy and dignity, i wanted to find out patients perception of privacy and dignity. i did literature search but i dont know what to do with them.

[Daytonite, BSN, RN]

literature review: review of previous work relating to research problem (to define, explain, justify) review of previous work relating to methodology (to define, explain, justify) review of previous work relating to results (particularly reliability, etc.) http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/literature_review.html (literature reviews) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/literature_review http://www.library.ncat.edu/ref/guides/literaturereview03.htm (how to do a literature review) http://library.ucsc.edu/ref/howto/literaturereview.html (how to write a literature review) http://www.wisc.edu/writing/handbook/reviewofliterature.html (how to write a review of literature)

it may be that the words "privacy" and "dignity" are not going to get you research articles. you may need to try synonyms of those words or topics similar to those. i was thinking that "confidentiality", "rights" or "human rights" might be another topic to try backdooring into this subject. we're big on the confidentiality thing in healthcare here in the u.s. and even have a huge federal law over it. once you find one article, it is a matter of checking the references the author used and looking those references up. did you check the chapter of your textbook that addresses this issue and looking at the references for it at the end of the chapter? there may be studies in the u.s, that have been done of patient perceptions of privacy.